: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:25 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Liverpool have started crap for the last couple of years now. Not having a CL qualifier to get us battle-hardened probably cost us. (Not that I'm a Liverpool player)

No they haven't.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:25 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Onouha has only just pen to paper on a new five-year deal though, hasn't he?

True, but its only a piece of paper!

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:35 pm  

Cubby wrote:

No they haven't.

They sneaked past Sunderland last term, but that performance was probably worse than the one at WHL yesterday.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:37 pm  

richardviking wrote:

They sneaked past Sunderland last term, but that performance was probably worse than the one at WHL yesterday.

Winning the first game and being top for a while isn't a crap start, especialy when top at xmas.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:27 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Onouha has only just pen to paper on a new five-year deal though, hasn't he?

I would be amazed if he is included as part of any deal. He did sign a five-year contract and he stated that he knows he will need to improve to get a starting spot. Thus he seems happy to bide his time on the fringes of the squad.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:49 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

You could try and put it into context. Or does that not suit your agenda?


I'd rather Hughes not make such comments but Moyes has spent the last two or three weeks criticising MCFC and Mark Hughes, as well as our owners. Hughes just brushed off Moyes' comments in the last few weeks. But he knows that his recent sly dig will have hurt Moyes and Everton fans / "The People".

Hughes has made Moyes and Ferguson look a bit silly these last few weeks. I still have doubts about Hughes' tactical ability but he is showing himself to be far more intelligent than Moyes and Ferguson.

I don't have an agenda, I just thought it seemed a bit beneath him to engage in that way.

As you say, up until now the way he has brushed off comments and got on with things has been spot on. ATEOTD day he's now up there to be shot at due to circumstances outside of his influence. It's not even like he took on the job because of the potential for playing fantasy football and bullying other clubs, he was there before the big money and has been blessed with the opportunity since. I just think that at this stage with all the petty mudslinging, getting it together on the pitch would hurt the other teams far more than stooping to genital measuring, and he could come out of it looking the better man in the process.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:51 pm  

Cubby wrote:

Winning the first game and being top for a while isn't a crap start, especialy when top at xmas.

I'm talking their first game. All I'm saying is that there is no need to resort to panic stations.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:11 pm  

carl_spackler wrote:

I don't have an agenda, I just thought it seemed a bit beneath him to engage in that way.

As you say, up until now the way he has brushed off comments and got on with things has been spot on. ATEOTD day he's now up there to be shot at due to circumstances outside of his influence. It's not even like he took on the job because of the potential for playing fantasy football and bullying other clubs, he was there before the big money and has been blessed with the opportunity since. I just think that at this stage with all the petty mudslinging, getting it together on the pitch would hurt the other teams far more than stooping to genital measuring, and he could come out of it looking the better man in the process.

Which, if you watch his interview, rather than reading the summary of the interview, you'll find he did.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:12 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote: Have you watched the interview with him? It's on the BBC website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 203514.stm I don't think Hughes said a thing wrong. I don't even think he made the comment that Citeh were a bigger club trying to buy one of Everton's players - that was simply the BBC Journos summing up of his comments. Is that the same interview the quote is supposedly from? If so, it really doesn't seem to tally and I agree he's been completely misrepresented, as he mentions nothing of club size or specifics. I must admit I'm without internet access at home at the moment so until today had only seen the reports on teletext and heard the radio bulletins.

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote: Have you watched the interview with him? It's on the BBC website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 203514.stm I don't think Hughes said a thing wrong. I don't even think he made the comment that Citeh were a bigger club trying to buy one of Everton's players - that was simply the BBC Journos summing up of his comments. Is that the same interview the quote is supposedly from? If so, it really doesn't seem to tally and I agree he's been completely misrepresented, as he mentions nothing of club size or specifics. I must admit I'm without internet access at home at the moment so until today had only seen the reports on teletext and heard the radio bulletins.

: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:13 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Which, if you watch his interview, rather than reading the summary of the interview, you'll find he did.

See my next post. If that's all he said he got it spot on again.